Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who's the fairest of them all?
When the queen asked her mirror that question every morning, the mirror always answered that she was the fairest--until one day when a different answer was returned. That response started a long series of attempts to kill Snow White.
How do we answer that question about ourselves? Most of us put on a veneer of humility, but deep down inside, we think we are better or more deserving of praise than others. "Pride," the Scripture says, "goeth before a fall." I don’t know about you, but the battle against pride and its effects is continuous for me.
Pride interferes with our Christian witness. If we think we, and others, are good, how can we tell others that they are sinners in need of Jesus? If we are better than others, how can we stoop to minister to lower beings? How can we do it effectively?
Pride is really the great sin: it is the sin of thinking we are like God. It is the original sin of Satan. Pride provoked the Jewish leaders to put a contract on the head of Jesus. "The fairest of them all" is never us: it is always Jesus, and we must constantly keep that in mind.
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